Opinion: In Praise of Obama’s Race Rhetoric

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... I ... the ... the to be very careful about not pre judging ... these events before ... investigations ... are completed ... because although ... these are ... go issues of local jurisdiction ... of ... note that the DOJ works for me and when they're conducting investigation of the make sure that ... I don't look like them ... put my thumb on the scales one where the US ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel that was the Albom I yesterday ... commenting on the racial unrest in Ferguson Missouri ... one had to take on his statement starting with best the Web Today columnist ... James to ransom chain's ... how would you like this rhetoric yes ... yes I thought this was ... a big improvement over the way the president dealt with earlier racial flare ups remember the ... skip Gates encounter with police the Harvard professor five years ago and another trip market where ... Obama needs further off the cuff statements first use of the police in Cambridge Massachusetts acted stupidly ... and they said if I had a son he would look like tree of on ... making it look like he was taking sides in I think you're a ride with her out this site statement and the IQ in a yesterday ... I he was very good dishes as as he should be the one of the what if I had one criticism of that type ... actuality we saw ... I wish he'd made the top forty Tory stable rather than just an explanatory letter which it said ... I think it's important that we not pre judge the situation says James are essentially is a neat he's learned from these experiences and often that's what it looks like ... in other regions so why here ... I don't know perhaps I he feels a special responsibility is the first black president ought to deal with these sorts of questions in AEI ... in a sensitive and soothing way ... are ready to stage a greater interest in them and say im not in foreign policy perhaps he didn't ... state is much of his writing ... it means the top of the present situation in Iraq where ... there seems to be real cognitive dissonance about what is going on over there now ... odd but he states his campaign he states is political ... career on a particular policy they're ... less so years said he craps was more chain ... she say anything all ... the committee as much as I believe the first image he made about this ... was in response to an outcry from ... people were generous sympathetic to him ... that he hadn't said anything about the ... shooting of Michael Brown ... and a put out a statement of condolence is I after Robin Williams's suicide units can be studied and if he does damned if he doesn't ... change who is he speaking to me makes the statement says the speaking to ... residents in Ferguson is the isthe speaking to the people who are watching these events on TV and in ... how did you read as well I think he's trying to speak to everyone but as a black man is present United States he does have a certain authority in speaking to the black community ... and I've been that's why think it's important that he speaks unit in a measured tone ... and tightening unit discourages the kind of Russian judgment on both sides but I think the people rush to judgment on the other side maybe will be less inclined to lose our colleague Jason Riley has made the point though that this president ... up with Al Sharpton on stage with him Al Sharpton is not someone who is preaching ... of the politics of that to say ... that balance or tolerance on site seems to me really say from the state yesterday that the president has has learned this lesson ... well I think we can say that again very good statement I would not defend is putting out Sharpton on I refuse to go on MSNBC is lauded as he has a program that ... I'd you know that on the trip I live Sharpton ... but ... I think we can judge the statement separately from on from it you know that guilt by association did well in praise of the rhetoric yesterday at least the Select columnist James rant thank you so much for joining us ... Obama also talked about black criminality in his statement yesterday ... have a listen ... there are ... young black men to commit crimes ... and when we can we can argue about ... why that happened because hse ... of the poverty were born into an lack of opportunity with school systems that failed them or have you but ... the victim of crime ... then they need be ... of ... prosecutors ... political Diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley joins me now Jason ... um you have talked about ... the need for the president to address plaque criminality are you happy with that statement instrument ... of letting the mentioned the ... complex a hot head who commit crimes who prosecuted yes um I don't like him counting this ... in in terms of poverty though as a reason ... or or a system of justice system the somewhat helpful suggestions there's a way to explain it ... I don't I don't really buy that Mary if you if you look back to um you know nineteen sixty for instance ... when there is obviously much for racism ... and much more poverty to clean black poverty ... in this country is follower last time when it's nice to lower black incarceration ... we also talk about my brother's keeper he said it we need to talk to you and I quote city's communities clergy parents of young people ... the ... it is that the kind of rhetoric has been asking what the president has spoken ... aam ... from time to time about Christmas possibility ... about the absence of fathers in the black community and and that outcomes that was all my iPod and ... twenty dollars that I was the source that's all he would talk about ... all the time the rage but what what what what ... I don't buy this ... rhetoric he's been using in response to what's going on ... in Ferguson of this attempted to bring us all together in United's financial and ... I think that this is the same present life member has been sending out his attorney general ... over the past two storey four years ... to tell the country ... that white Republicans are trying to disenfranchise acts ... blacks ... with voter ID laws ... this this present ... of you know from when when it suits his political purposes he has no problem dividing us racially in this country I think we need to keep that in mind ... when we listen to what what we're hearing today ... so crude speaks for a lot biting boxes assistance ... in this country exclusively for them ... because you're the main reason why invited me the spokesman ... I mean I I ... this whole whole idea that I'm ... the the the the tenth of the leadership of how well my height take issue with Lewis and undivided man ... who isn't ... a good thing the president is dividing us by race in this country ... um is there a person by the US ... why did I don't think the ... I guess I just don't understand the Proms the question ... what is blocking the Beetle meter ... recently Tony up locally ... aam ... you know with blacks have have a conversation about flat call for the problems with that ... and how we should dress and I would argue goes ... back to the breakdown the black family ... I think one of the reasons we have a better outcomes ... in the nineteen forties and fifties and sixties with respect to crime ... is because the black unwinnable with a much better shape ... back then and a lot of these government efforts to help a black underclass since that time ... have resulted in the breakdown of a black family I think that's manifest and Blackman will set you like the state yesterday just wish the president when to use more of that kind of rhetoric ... um I don't want to hear her making excuses for black criminality the way he was making yesterday I think this behavior should just be condemned full stop ... focus ... little diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley ... thank so much for joining us ... how much red tape does America really Pavlov quietly yes the money in Dallas ... stated ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel RU was small business owner ... ever wonder how much red tape America really has ... will my next guest knows Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Patrick McLoughlin ... joins me now to talk about a new day bases put together Patrick ... how are you measuring regulation nation ... Mary worked raises the stakes of federal regulation based on the actual text of the agency's pronounce ... these are simple things lay workouts but also more complex things like restriction counts ... these are words like shall or months to create some legal binding obligation ... as well as which industry is being targeted by that the text of the regulations themselves he I think we've got some numbers Eric and put him up on the screen for viewers to see ... I'm a pastor at what she ... sees the worst offenders here ... well ... the agency that stands out above the rest for both had been grown the most over the time being the look that as well as being the largest is the EPA ... um in twenty twelve EPA regulations accounted for about thirteen point five percent of all regulations ... and that proportion has been consistently growing over time ... yours might say the block regulation is a good thing you can't measure the benefits of staying clean air so I do you respond to that ... all the sexy one of the point of this exercise the ... measurement is necessary to understand and optimize in the complex system ... and so what were doing here is measuring regulation which is complex and of itself with this inputs ... to the even more complex economy ... so we start by measuring regulation and we can see number one is an SUV to the outcomes that we want things like clean air clean water ... then number two ... what are we giving up an exchange there's no such thing as a free lunch this is always in the sum cost associated with this but I can understand don't don't agencies measure that cost him the benefit of all these rules that they put out ... I wish that were the case but actually the cost and benefit analyses that goes on by agencies ... along the curve for something like less than one percent of all new rules ... secondly we have a look at who's going to cost benefit analysis here ... I it on the professors well if I gave students the opportunity grade the wrong test I do think they're great ... I thought Al Gore reinvented governments that ... are Republicans or Democrats better at controlling all of this that ... Garmin that these agencies are spewing out ... will the Spacey one the most interesting findings if you look back ... over time here we have we have both Republicans and Democrats controlling the White House but the long-term trend that tends to see this and that is regulation ... appears to be growing regardless of who controls the White House on the other hand what we do see a specific acts of Congress ... can make a big change on health specific agencies change ... for her to regulate okay so the bottom the bottom line is we're still drowning in red tape and it's likely to continue into the future terrible news ... for the dissenters senior research fellow Dr McLaughlin thank you so much for joining us thank you ... appreciate ... their strong buy at the Metropolitan Opera onstage and offstage ... their kids is here now ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... the Metropolitan Opera here in New York finally struck a deal with multiple labor unions ... but I steals and not to say in the institution itself ... leisure Arts Editor Eric Gibson joins me now Erica wanted from a year ... what was partly trade between and is written on the CD was well off lots of drama going on several months to ... the deal was for your contractors ... between the orchestra and chorus ... that it can be due three point five percent pay cut ... take a further three point five percent cut in six months ... the gets a three percent of revenues ... in four years ... they get to keep their health plan to get to keep a whole lot of other stuff I'm sorry so so it sounds to me like ... it when you were actually if you're really better for the well this is the big question Peter Dale the general manager had been his position was that he needed between sixteen and seventeen percent ... in salary and benefit cuts to the man was to survive long term ... and that the in in one sense it's win win the match gets season ... Dr unions to accept cuts the union supported a walkout ... um and they got things for their for their members but the bottom line is that the the ... struggling now I mean it's one of the stopper houses in the world well it's it's it's for the greatest once but that the problem is that ... close to one third of its budgeted three hundred million dollars your budget went into payments ... salary benefit payments to its union ... businessman ... though they have been extremely high overhead ... he cried various things to increase revenue like huge the live broadcast from a lot of money for while the supply oh ... and they they can't make enough tickets and also ... they've ... been basically making up the shortfall through donations from donors and and ... curling down the and down Eric is off the dying and people are going to them that it is up or have a future but of course as a future this is been one of Peter Jones arguments that opera is a daunting proposition and he's trying ... to save it but there are plenty of opportunities for country there are ... every season has two or three new offers being produced written ... and this is a this the real problem is that the Macworld their costs one are so high and are so high because of the few new agree ... to the problem is the opera it's Big Labor ... returned Arts Editor ... Eric gets a thank you so much thank you joining us ... what are E-mail us at Opinion Journal why that WSJ dot com ... I'm Mary Kissel with The Wall Street Journal editorial board ... thanks for watching ... I ... I ... I ...